Cardiac Trap

A strange device that combines crude mechanics with dark sorcery, as if created for one single purpose — to intercept the very moment of death. At its center pulses a crystal that beats to another creature’s heart rhythm, while thin needles and gears quietly wind with every beat. They say the trap does not save one from death — it merely halts the inevitable for a brief moment, forcing the heart to freeze between two beats. In that instant, the body is still alive, yet already standing on the threshold where every next movement may become the last.